Fanny Burney: A Biography
by Claire Harman
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- Hardcover
- first
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- ISBN 10
- 0002556901
- ISBN 13
- 9780002556903
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HarperCollins, Great Britain, 2000. First Edition. Hardcover. Good Condition/Good. An authoritative biography of the first truly literary woman novelist in English whose life, spanning the years 1752 to 1840, embraced the worlds of music, literature, politics, English Court life and the French Revolution. In 1767, on her 15th birthday, Fanny Burney decided her career as a writer was over, and made a bonfire of all her works in the yard of her father's London house. Fanny Burney was genuinely worried that she might turn into an author, a fate incompatible - for a woman - with respectability. Her hope was in vain. Not only was she to write four novels - 'Evelina', 'Cecilia', 'Camilla' and 'The Wanderer' - but she also kept a voluminous diary for the next 70 years and was a prolific letter-writer. Daughter of the eminent music historian Dr Charles Burney, editor of his famous 'Memoirs'; friend of Sheridan, Garrick, Burke, Boswell and Johnson; second keeper of the robes to George III's Queen Charlotte; wife to French refugee aristocrat, General d-Arblay; detained for 10 years in revolutionary France; victim of mastectomy without anaesthetic . . . Fanny Burney's life was as eventful as any novel. 430 pages. Pages browned. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Biography; Biography & Autobiography; ISBN: 0002556901. ISBN/EAN: 9780002556903. Inventory No: 268385.. 9780002556903
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 268385
- Title
- Fanny Burney: A Biography
- Author
- Claire Harman
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0002556901
- ISBN 13
- 9780002556903
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- Great Britain
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- BZDB43 Biography; Biography & Autobiography; Unbranded ISBN: 0002556901 EAN: 9780002556903 Claire Harman Fanny Burney: A Biography
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